Feminism

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May 8, 2015

Section: Culture
– Feminism

“Sexual equality has
been achieved, but feminists try to justify further actions based on dis-proven studies, which has its own unintended
consequence of inability to achieve unrealistic expectations.”

“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we,
the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing
less.” Susan
B. Anthony

Philosophy
(Background, Issues, Objectives):

Feminism has achieved its goal of equal
opportunity

The Secular Feminism movement progressed
through three stages:

oFirst
Wave Feminism - Margaret
Walters in Feminism,
A Very Short Introduction, details the rise of
secular feminism. Philosopher John Stuart Mill published The Subjugation of
Women, an influential defense of women’s rights, in 1869, which
helped lead into the battle for suffragism, the
women’s vote which was not achieved till the First World War when
millions of women left the home to work and help with
the war effort.

oSecond
Wave Feminism - The
Second Wave emerged after WWII. Betty Freidan’s Feminine Mystique was
a scathing expose’ of the supposed mass of unhappy urban housewives
across America. The radical Friedan went on to help found the National
Organization of Women (NOW). Gloria Steinem founded Ms Magazine for an
increasingly radicalized feminist movement, which moved towards Marxist
concepts. Germaine Greer wrote The Female Eunuch in 1970, which
challenged the notion that women were inferior in any
sense to men, whether physically or psychologically.

Lesbian
Separatist Feminists - After encountering the radicalizing effects of Marxism,
feminism began the complete demonization of anything masculine. Betty
Friedan was angered and alarmed at the lesbians, denouncing them as a
Lavender Menace. In response, famous American journalist Jill Johnston
authored Lesbian
Nation: The Feminist Solution.Feminism was increasingly
commandeered by radicals like Socialist, Anarchic, Black, Lesbian, Marxist
and other subcultures.

There
have been two major schools of thought within the women’s movement: egalitarian
feminism and social feminism:

oEgalitarian feminists were radicals that held that
men and women, although socialized to different roles, are identical in their
essential natures. By appealing to principles of social justice and universal
rights, egalitarians sought to liberate women from the private sphere of the
home—into the public spheres of politics, business, and work.

oSocial feminists were traditionalist,
family-centered, embraced women’s roles as mothers or caregivers, and
promoted women’s rights by redefining and strengthening those roles.
Social feminists argued that an empowered femininity could be a force for good
and made common cause with the egalitarians in promoting women’s
education, suffrage, and participation in the culture and politics.

For every 100
women who earn a bachelor’s degree, just 73 men get one.

Disciplines
where females are not proportionately represented are by personal choice.

Women have
broken glass ceilings in industry and the public sector.

oWhen pay is normalized for experience
and job conditions, women earn same or more than men.

oWomen are “off-ramping” to take time off for children, returning with
minimal career damage.

In 1970’s the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was defeated as
unneeded and overkill.

oERA will be used to protect not only women, but
homosexuals and transgendered.

oIn
2004 one in five women in their early 40s are childless, down from one in ten
in 1976.

oIn
2004 67.2% of women were married, down from 88% in 1960.

Women now suffer
depression at twice the rate of men as women are unable to achieve
unrealistic feminist dreams.

If feminism were
genuine, it would have disappeared when discrimination against women
ended.

oIt continues as a tool of the elite agenda: depopulation,
destabilizing society, and dismantling Western Civilization.

There is a broad spectrum of types of
feminism:

Equal-opportunity
feminism.This kind holds that
women (and girls) should have equal opportunities with men (and boys) in
all areas of work, play, education, etc.

Career-first
feminism.This kind holds that a
woman’s first duty to herself is to find a career rather than to
find a husband.

Sexual-liberation
feminism.According to this kind,
unmarried girls and women should feel morally free to go to bed with
whatever men (or women) they like.

Man-hating
feminism.Our society,
says this kind of feminism, is a patriarchal society in which all men (and
boys) benefit from “male privilege” and are therefore, unless
they repent and take up the feminist banner, the enemies of all women.

Quasi-religious
feminism.If
you’re a leftwing feminist, you almost certainly despise traditional
religion, which you regard as profoundly patriarchal and anti-woman; and
you are very probably an atheist.

Feminist movement has become out of
touch: anti-male, anti-child, anti-family, and anti-feminine.

National Organization
of Women (NOW) has become an ideological dinosaur that has divided:

oOne faction is radical “gender feminists” who are anti-male and pro-socialist.

oIt
poses many problems for Amer­ica's federalist system of government and the
rights established in the U.S. Constitution.

oMany
of the issues with which CEDAW concerns itself, such as access to health care
and education, belong under the purview of state or local jurisdiction in the
U.S. constitutional order.

CEDAW requires national governments to work
toward eliminating gender-based discrimination in every area of life,
using this expansive definition of discrimination against women:

oFurthermore,
countries that have ratified CEDAW are evaluated based on their compliance with
CEDAW by the CEDAW Committee, which meets at the UN several times a year.

oThe
committee consistently oversteps its mandate, acting as a quasi-judicial body
issuing forceful instructions to countries that often do not share its radical
social agenda, and committee meetings inev­itably serve as a forum for
reinterpreting the terms agreed upon by the treaty members.

CEDAW is an ineffective and inappropriate
instrument for advancing women's rights around the world.

oIn the case
of American women, their freedom and personal dignity are best protected by the
U.S. Constitution and the rule of law it establishes.

Principles:

Sexual equality has basically been
achieved, and any exceptions can be prosecuted.

Discrimination
in all its variations is an abomination, and must be prosecuted.

Refuse to be a
victim, take responsibility for yourself.

Recommendations:

Declare Victory in the War on Equality,
having delivered equal opportunity regardless of sex.

“Why I
don’t take feminists seriously, Part I” by Mike S. Adams dated
January 23, 2006 published by Town Hall at http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2006/01/23/why_i_donâ€™t_take_feminists_seriously .

“Why I
don’t take feminists seriously, Part III” by Mike S. Adams
dated January 26, 2006 published by Town Hall at http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2006/01/26/why_i_donâ€™t_take_feminists_seriously,_part_iii .

“Why I
don’t take feminists seriously, Part IV” by Mike S. Adams dated
January 30, 2006 published by Town Hall at
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2006/01/30/why_i_donâ€™t_take_feminists_seriously,_part_iv.

“Why I
don’t take feminists seriously, Part V” by Mike S. Adams dated
January 31, 2006 published by Town Hall at
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2006/01/31/why_i_donâ€™t_take_feminists_seriously,_part_v .

“Why I
don’t take feminists seriously, Part VI” by Mike S. Adams dated
February 7, 2006 published by Town Hall at
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2006/02/07/why_i_donâ€™t_take_feminists_seriously,_part_vi .

“Why I
don’t take feminists seriously, Part VII” by Mike S. Adams
dated February 9, 2006 published by Town Hall at
http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2006/02/09/why_i_donâ€™t_take_feminists_seriously,_part_vii .